Lavell Crawford Doesn't Have An Issue With Paula Deen

For the obvious reasons.

I love that happy man,...

I Can't Get A Donation Of Any Kind For Pointing At White Racism - But Paula Deen Got $75,000 For Perpetuating It

This country is so psychologically screwed up it can rattle the soul:

   Listen carefully to Deen's language. Never once does she mention slavery. Her great grandfather doesn't own slaves -- he has "workers" or "people on his books." He had no one to "help" operate his plantation. Is that what we're calling slave labor these days?

According to Deen, whites in the South treated their slaves like "family." Let's travel back in time and ask, say, a man who might have been the Solomon Northop equivalent in her grandfather's plantation. We do not know how Paula Deen's forebears treated their slaves, but do you think a slave on that plantation would say he was treated like one of the family? Let's not forget that if he did tell truth, he could be punished or even killed for doing so.

Only in Deen's altered universe could she think slaves were treated like family. She also tells us that Southerners are less prejudiced because of those very circumstances. Who knew that descendants of slave owners were less prejudiced ... because their relatives owned slaves?

Descendants of slave owners,….

 

I Black, You Black, We Blackity-Black-Black-Black, Black

Since I felt forced into that little series on blackness, I'm trying to figure out how to elegantly get out of it (homeopathy!) but post-Trayvon, the stream of stories keep it hittin' - here's where I sit on 'em:

I don't give a fuck about Paula Deen or Riley Cooper because I live in America, and know how we talk, and don't think Americans should be punished for it. You want to reprimand an employee at work, fine. But firing somebody? Fuck you. 

This shit ain't that bad, if it's bad at all.

Everybody knows I don't like Oprah, but right now conservatives are wrongly "playing gotcha" with her because she said millions of blacks were lynched when, by the strict definition of the term, there were merely thousands. I guess it's somewhat to their credit that - even after watching her fall for every NewAge character and concoction ever invented - no one considered the possibility Oprah's uneducated. One of those blacks, like Obama, who's allowed to slide by for whatever quality white's appreciate seeing in them. That's what I see. 

I see a whole lot more, too, but I'm typing with one finger, so fuck it.

I see The Root says Spike Lee compared Tyler Perry's work to Amos n Andy. 

In light of that, I don't think The Root, Spike Lee, or Tyler Perry are worthy of two sentences.

I think a "Dummies" version of the Trayvon Martin trial should be produced, and replayed everywhere, until the Black Muslims are begging George Zimmerman to come home.

Charlie Rangel is a liar, a crook, a troublemaker, and a fool. 

And he's not alone.

And finally, all Don Lemon said is what anybody's grandmother would say. So he's gay, big deal. 

Calling him a "Professional Assassin” seems a bit much,...

 

Dr. Helen's Next Book Should Be On Male Backstabbing

Glenn Reynolds says:

"It’s interesting the way most of the media has rallied to defend [Alec] Baldwin even as they rallied to destroy Paula Deen"

But, but - BUT - Reynolds doesn't seem to grasp he (as part of "the media") shouldn't be trying to destroy either one for talking:

See, he wrote that statement while linking to an article by Jim Treacher, attacking Baldwin, like Treacher and Reynolds are liberals ("that racist, misogynist homophobe Alec Baldwin.") 

Tell me - is that irony, hypocrisy, or just a Baldwin-hating fad? Really, please, help me: 

 I'm not as "educated" as these guys,....